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Jones Day has been named a recipient of the American Bar Association's 2015 Pro Bono Publico Award for its pro bono work. In granting the award to the firm, the ABA cited Jones Day's assistance to women with children and unaccompanied children seeking refuge in the United States from violence in Central America. Jones Day sent teams...

Dykema has teamed up with The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending discrimination against transgender people, to bring the “Name Change Project” to Michigan. The “Name Change Project” provides legal assistance for transgender people who are seeking...

Akin Gump secured a near $1 million award on behalf of Freeman, the world’s largest brand experience company, to cover attorneys’ fees in a discrimination case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC had claimed that Freeman’s use of job applicants’ credit histories and criminal convictions had a...

Akin Gump advised Joe’s Jeans Inc. in the sale of the Joe’s brand and operating assets for an aggregate purchase price of $80 million to two separate buyers, Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and Global Brands Group Holding Limited. Akin Gump also advised Joe’s Jeans on a merger of the remaining Hudson business with the parent company of...

Former assistant U.S. attorney Parvin Daphne Moyne has joined Akin Gump as a partner in its white collar defense and government investigations practice in New York. Ms. Moyne spent nearly a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently serving as a member of the elite Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the U.S. Attorney’s office. In that...

King & Spalding advised Belk, Inc., the nation’s largest family-owned and -operated department store company, in its acquisition by private equity firm Sycamore Partners in a deal valued at approximately $3 billion.

King & Spalding announced on September 8 that Lisa Dwyer, senior policy advisor in the Office of Policy with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, joins King & Spalding’s Washington. D.C. office as partner. Her recruitment continues a long-standing tradition of former FDA and other government officials joining the firm.

UBIC, Inc., has announced that it will establish a new company to accelerate its expansion into the field of marketing based on data analysis using AI technology. UBIC will establish Rappa, Inc., which will specialize in marketing operations, including the analysis of information available on the Internet. With the establishment of Rappa, which is the...

Nathan J. Oleson has rejoined Akin Gump as a partner in its labor and employment practice in Washington, D.C. Oleson had previously been a partner at the firm from 2008-2014, departing to serve as executive vice president and general counsel to national fitness center chain 24 Hour Fitness, where he helped guide it through its sale to new private equity...

Akin Gump announced on September 2 that Michael P. Kahn has joined the firm as a partner in its intellectual property practice in New York. Mr. Kahn is an experienced trial lawyer who focuses on patent infringement disputes and related claims, such as trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and breach of contract. He comes to Akin Gump from...

Paul J. Kaufman has joined the Del Mar office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group and Energy practice. He joins from Chadbourne & Park in Los Angeles.

King & Spalding announced on September 1 that international energy and infrastructure projects and finance lawyer James K. Alford has joined the firm’s Global Transactions Group as counsel in the Washington, D.C. office. Alford comes to the firm from the Washington, D.C., office of Locke Lord LLP.

King & Spalding has announced that prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Alexander G. Calfo joined the firm’s more than 450-lawyer strong litigation department as partner. Calfo, who is known for trying high-profile product liability matters in the pharmaceutical and medical device, automotive, manufacturing and chemical industries, joins King...

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC welcomes Kraig Haverstick to the firm's Intellectual Property and Patent practice groups. Haverstick is a patent agent in the firm's Harrisburg office. Prior to joining McNees, he worked for a New York law firm serving as a registered patent agent since 2005.

On August 8, UBIC, Inc. (NASDAQ:UBIC) (TSE:2158), a leading provider of Asian-language e-discovery solutions and services, announced its unaudited financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2015 (the "first quarter 2016"). All figures are prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles of Japan ("...

King & Spalding announced on August 12 that Stephen Goff, Marcia Augsburger, John Barnes and Leslie Murphy, four highly regarded lawyers in California focused on healthcare litigation, investigation and regulation, will join the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group. All four will join King & Spalding from DLA Piper’s Health Care Sector...

As part of its ongoing pro bono efforts, King & Spalding has been assisting the Republic of Liberia in its efforts to join the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based, member state organization responsible for regulating international trade.